{"id":1174414,"date":"2022-08-11T14:32:07","date_gmt":"2022-08-11T14:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/11\/parsing-coinbases-regulatory-risk\/"},"modified":"2022-08-11T14:32:07","modified_gmt":"2022-08-11T14:32:07","slug":"parsing-coinbases-regulatory-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/11\/parsing-coinbases-regulatory-risk\/","title":{"rendered":"Parsing Coinbase\u2019s regulatory risk \u2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\"><span class=\"featured__span-first-words\">Coinbase earnings reports<\/span> carry weight because the U.S. cryptocurrency exchange commands material market share in a budding portion of the digital economy. Additionally, it\u2019s an active startup investor and a key data point in determining the current health of the crypto market. Naturally,  was all over its recently released financial data, pulling out a few key takeaways from the mix.<\/p>\n<p>However, in the wake of Coinbase\u2019s Q2 2022 earnings cycle, its regulatory disclosures contained in recent filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission have garnered attention, so this morning we\u2019re digging in a bit more.<\/p>\n<p>Regulatory risk is always something to consider when we discuss financial technology companies. Any business dealing with money in motion has to abide by a large and complicated set of rules that have been written over time in an effort to help a nation\u2019s financial markets operate smoothly, with minimal fraud and a lack of erratic volatility.<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>Read it every morning on + or get The Exchange newsletter every Saturday.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p>However, because the technology market can advance faster than government regulations, companies operating at the forefront of changes to financial technology can wind up in a regulatory gray area. This creates a gap between what the government has sorted out and what the market is actually up to. That\u2019s where we can spot regulatory risk, and that zone of uncertainty contains billions and billions of dollars of economic activity.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coinbase earnings reports carry weight because the U.S. cryptocurrency exchange commands material market share in a budding portion of the digital economy. Additionally, it\u2019s an active startup investor and a key data point in determining the current health of the crypto market. Naturally, was all over its recently released financial data, pulling out a few [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1174416,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1174414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrity-gossip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1174414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174414\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1174414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1174414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1174414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}